Simulating the Marginal Green Contribution of AI Modules in a Smart-Agriculture Platform: Evidence from Two Monte Carlo Experiments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06740v1
• Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:25:33 GMT
• Title: Simulating the Marginal Green Contribution of AI Modules in a Smart-Agriculture Platform: Evidence from Two Monte Carlo Experiments
• Abstract summary: This paper makes the components explicit and runs two controlled simulation experiments.<n>Experiment 1 follows the chain from AI capability to farmer behavior to agrochemical input reduction.<n>Experiment 2 compares current practice (P0), IoT engineering retrofit (P1), and P1 plus AI irrigation scheduling.
• Score: 12.93848838655257
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Smart agriculture platforms usually bundle AI diagnosis, IoT sensing and decision push into a single package, so the green benefit attributable to each component remains unclear and resource-allocation decisions lack quantitative evidence. Building on a previous platform-level Monte Carlo assessment, this paper makes the components explicit and runs two controlled simulation experiments. Experiment 1 follows the chain from AI capability to farmer behavior to agrochemical input reduction, modeling pesticide/fertilizer reduction as avoidable blind-application share times prescription effectiveness times decision-touch coverage times adoption rate, and compares an experienced-extension mode with the AI mode: the probability of reaching 20% pesticide reduction is essentially zero in the extension mode but 20.7% at baseline, up to 49% with diagnosis accuracy 0.95 and adoption 0.85 under AI; the probability of 15% fertilizer reduction rises from near zero to 52.0%. Experiment 2 compares current practice (P0), IoT engineering retrofit (P1), and P1 plus AI irrigation scheduling (P2): median aggregate water saving rises from 7.8% (P0) to 11.0% (P1) and 16.0% (P2), with AI adding 5.0 percentage points beyond engineering; paddy CH4 reduction reaches 30.5% under AI scheduling versus 19.8% under manual operation, and the rice irrigation-methane subsystem carbon intensity declines 27.9%. Sensitivity analyses of both experiments consistently indicate that the primary bottleneck for meeting green targets is farmer adoption rather than algorithm accuracy, and that AI data fusion is robust to soil-moisture sensing errors. This work provides a reproducible simulation framework for component-level green-value evaluation and promotion-strategy optimization of smart agriculture platforms.

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